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Agatha Christie MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESSMURDER ON THEORIENT EXPRESSAgatha Christie is the world’s best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billioncopies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the mostwidely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 79 novels andshort story collections, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-runningplay in history. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant little Belgian Hercule Poirot andthe irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world-famous detectives. Bothhave been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies.Agatha Christie also wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Aswell, she wrote four nonfiction books including an autobiography and an entertaining account ofthe many expeditions she shared with her archaeologist husband Sir Max Mallowan.Agatha Christie died in 1976.1

Agatha Christie MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESSHarperPaperbacksby Agatha ChristieMURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESSTHE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERYPOSTERN OF FATECROOKED HOUSEORDEAL BY INNOCENCETHE CLOCKSComing SoonTHE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYDCAT AMONG THE PIGEONSPOIROT INVESTIGATESTHE MIRROR CRACK’DENDLESS NIGHTBY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBSMURDER WITH MIRRORSFUNERALS ARE FATALNEMESIS DEAD MAN’S FOLLYDEATH COMES AS THE ENDDESTINATION UNKNOWNMRS. McGINTY’S DEADA CARIBBEAN MYSTERYDEATH ON THE NILEPASSENGER TO FRANKFURTTHE MOUSETRAP AND OTHER PLAYSMURDER IS EASY4:50 FROM PADDINGTONAT BERTRAMS HOTELSPARKLING CYANIDETHE PALE HORSEHICKORY DICKORY DOCKSLEEPING MURDERTHE BODY IN THE LIBRARYTHIRD GIRLHERCULE POIROT’S CHRISTMASCURTAIN2

Agatha Christie MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESSAGATHACHRISTIEMurder onthe OrientExpressHarperPaperbacksA Division of HarperCollinsPublishers3

Agatha Christie MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESSIf you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed’ to thepublisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.’This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.HarperPaperbacksA Division of HarperCollinsPublishers10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022Copyright 1933, 1934 by Agatha ChristieCopyright renewed 1960,1961 by Agatha Christie MallowanAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the publisher,except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of ThePutnam Berkley Group, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016.This book is published by arrangement with G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of The Putnam Berkley Group, Inc.This book was previously published under the title “Murder in the Calais Coach.’Cover illustration by Jenny Tylden-WrightFirst HarperPaperbacks printing: November 1991Printed in the United States of AmericaHarperPaperbacks and colophon are trademarks of HarperCollinsPublishers10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 14

Agatha Christie MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESSCONTENTSCONTENTS. 5PART I . 7THE FACTS . 71. 7AN IMPORTANT PASSENGER ON THE TAURUS EXPRESS. 72. 12THE TOKATLIAN HOTEL. 123. 17POIROT REFUSES A CASE. 174. 21A CRY IN THE NIGHT . 215. 23THE CRIME . 236. 29A WOMAN. 297. 33THE BODY . 338. 39THE ARMSTRONG KIDNAPPING CASE . 39PART II. 41THE EVIDENCE. 411. 41THE EVIDENCE OF THE WAGON LIT CONDUCTOR . 412. 46THE EVIDENCE OF THE SECRETARY. 463. 49THE EVIDENCE OF THE VALET. 494. 53THE EVIDENCE OF THE AMERICAN LADY . 535. 58THE EVIDENCE OF THE SWEDISH LADY . 586. 61THE EVIDENCE OF THE RUSSIAN PRINCESS . 617. 65THE EVIDENCE OF COUNT AND COUNTESS ANDRENYI. 658. 68THE EVIDENCE OF COLONEL ARBUTHNOT . 689. 73THE EVIDENCE OF MR. HARDMAN. 7310. 77THE EVIDENCE OF THE ITALIAN. 7711. 79THE EVIDENCE OF MISS DEBENHAM. 795

Agatha Christie MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS12. 82THE EVIDENCE OF THE GERMAN LADY’S-MAID. 8213. 86SUMMARY OF THE PASSENGERS’ EVIDENCE. 8614. 90THE EVIDENCE OF THE WEAPON. 9015. 94THE EVIDENCE OF THE PASSENGERS’ LUGGAGE . 94PART III . 102HERCULE POIROT SITS BACK AND THINKS . 1021. 102WHICH OF THEM?. 1022. 106TEN QUESTIONS. 1063. 109CERTAIN SUGGESTIVE POINTS . 1094. 114THE GREASE SPOT ON A HUNGARIAN PASSPORT. 1145. 118THE CHRISTIAN NAME OF PRINCESS DRAGOMIROFF. 1186. 121A SECOND INTERVIEW WITH COLONEL ARBUTHNOT. 1217. 123THE IDENTITY OF MARY DEBENHAM . 1238. 126FURTHER SURPRISING REVELATIONS . 1269. 130POIROT PROPOUNDS TWO SOLUTIONS . 1306

Agatha Christie MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESSPART ITHE FACTS1AN IMPORTANT PASSENGER ON THE TAURUS EXPRESSIt was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood thetrain grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express. It consisted of a kitchen anddining-car, a sleeping-car and two local coaches.By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young French lieutenant, resplendent inuniform conversing, with a small man muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but apink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.It was freezingly cold, and this job of seeing off a distinguished stranger was not one to beenvied, but Lieutenant Dubosc performed his part manfully. Graceful phrases fell from his lips inpolished French. Not that he knew what it was all about. There had been rumours, of course, asthere always were in such cases. The General’s—his General’s—temper had grown worse andworse. And then there had come this Belgian stranger—all the way from England, it seemed.There had been a week—a week of curious tensity. And then certain things had happened. Avery distinguished officer had committed suicide, another had suddenly resigned, anxious faceshad suddenly lost their anxiety, certain military precautions were relaxed. And the General,Lieutenant Dubosc’s own particular General, had suddenly looked ten years younger.Dubosc had overheard part of a conversation between him and the stranger. “You have savedus, mon cher,” said the General emotionally, his great white moust

Agatha Christie MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 1 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Agatha Christie is the world’s best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages.

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